WILLIAMS, Gordon Henry
| Service Number: | 405337 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 March 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 18 May 1920 |
| Home Town: | Windsor, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Accidental (Flying Accident), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 13 February 1942, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Toowong (Brisbane General) Cemetery, Queensland Portion 10 Section 58 Allotment 21A (GRM/4), Brisbane General Cemetery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cleveland Cemetery 23 (CITY OF BRISBANE) RAAF Squadron Memorial Plaque, Cleveland No 23 (City of Brisbane) Squadron Aircraft Accident, Nambour Maroochy Shire War Dead Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Sergeant, 405337 | |
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| 2 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 405337 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
RAAF Wirraway aircraft A20-100 and A20-290 of Number 23 Squadron (23SQN) based at Archerfield airfield in Brisbane collided over the Ormiston / Thornlands area near Cleveland in the Redlands Shire during a practice of air fighting tactics.
Debris from the two aircraft fell over the local school and cemetery and onto the shores of Moreton Bay. One Wirraway ended up near the cemetery and the other in what is now called Ziegenfusz Park near the end of Bay Street.
23SQN RAAF used the lower end of Moreton Bay for tactical exercises.
The crew of A20-100 were buried in Toowong Cemetery, Queensland - Sergeant Gordon Henry Williams 405337 (pilot) and Sergeant Allan Charles Lord 2216 (Observer)
The crew of A20-290 are commemorated on the Queensland Cremation Memorial - Sergeant George Arthur Ross Hardy 404966 (pilot) and Sergeant Frank Stanley Pledge 4576 (Observer)
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Charles Henry and Flora Williams, of Windsor.
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